Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.